Tase Matsunaga

- Full name: Tase Matsunaga
- Lifespan: 1884-05-11 – 1998-11-18
- Age: 114 years, 191 days
- Birthplace: Kiyosato, Niigata Prefecture , Japan
- Last residence: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Prefecture, Japan
- Application date: N/A
- Validation date: 2002-02-28
- Validation source: MHLW Japan
Biography
Tase Matsunaga was born in Kiyosato in the Niigata Prefecture, Japan, on 11 May 1884. Soon after her birth, the family moved to Tokyo. Matsunaga later moved from Tokyo, where she lived with her daughter, to Mutsumien in 1983. A farmer for most of her life, she was still gardening when she was 112, but she was mostly bedridden after that. On 31 July 1998, she became the oldest recognized living person in Japan.
Later that same year she died, aged 114 years, 191 days, of heart failure. At the time of her death, she was the second-oldest validated living person in the world, behind Sarah Knauss.
Validation
The supercentenarian case of Tase Matsunaga is verified by MHLW Japan and validated by the Gerontology Research Group on 28.02.2002.


Tase Matsunaga on 109th birthday (11 May 1993 )